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Anyone playing 5E on a virtual table? What do you recommend? Anything you've tried and not liked? Do any of the many options have anything that makes them particularly well suited to 5E?

After playing at least weekly since the release of 3.5, DMing a 4E game at home in a completely homemade campaign (about as completely as those things can be, anyway) since August of '08, fiddling with my own "rules light" 4E system almost constantly, and organizing and running a table at...

We're years into the 4th Edition and months into Essentials. You have the critical stuff: You have the skills. You have the books and/or electronic tools and the DM screen. You have dice for you and dice for players. You have plenty of pencils and paper, maps, and tokens and minis. You...

This is a poll based on the Legends and Lore column of 29 March by Mike Mearls.

Anyone have any good stories from encountering the deck of many things?

Why is all of the Gamma World stuff squirreled away at Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page The way they are presenting Gamma World just doesn't make any sense to me. Trying to find information and articles devoted just to Gamma World is difficult. It doesn't seem like a...

Does the D&D brand mean anything to board game buyers? Board games with an element of role-playing? What are these products supposed to mean to me as a D&D player? Are they accessories or additions to the game for me to use during our weekly game sessions? While I'm playing a bit of devil's...

Has anyone ever tried turning the DM screen around so you see the art but the players get at-a-glance descriptions of conditions, lists of what's a standard action vs. what's a minor, etc? If so, how did it work out for you? Seems like my new and casual players would greatly benefit from...

So, I received the "You're one of the 900 best DMs" reward delivered to and handed over from my FLGS today. It's pretty awesome, IMHO. It came with A letter to my FLGS saying I'm a pretty awesome DM and to treat me like royalty since I help the store actually sell some D&D product instead of...

Can someone put the news from DDXP into a short summary for me? Any bottom line takeaways? Thanks in advance.

When I run games, my players are rolling skill checks all the time. Without telling them as much, they are constantly in recursive skill challenges where successes lend bonuses to other skill checks which add up to minor skill challenges the success or failure of which affect the overall...

Like it says on the tin: I want to start a new campaign with some long-distance buddies. Based on the first look at the DDI game table, should I wait until it comes out of beta? Or should I start with one of the current virtual table solutions out there? What's the community consensus best...

Fan-fraking-tastic account of lessons learned running a 4E campaign for 2.5 years across 100 sessions from Mike Shea over at Critical Hits. Must read for 4E fans, IMHO. What I Learned Running a 1 to 30 D&D Campaign by Mike Shea

The write-ups include Spy, Illusionist, Assassin, and Entropist. There are two different Gnome tokens. Gnome Illusionists and Gnome Spys are used in the adventure Cairn of the Winter King. Best of all, the reading between the lines of the flavor text gives a wonderful nod to true believers...

Has anyone here tried splicing Ars Magica's (the 5th, latest edition's) magic spell and item creation rules into 4E as a replacement or addition to the ritual system? I ask, because I was feeling a little mopey about the loss of rituals in Essentials, and pondering what felt like lack of...

My D&D Essentials Dungeon Master's Book is falling apart. The cover is coming off the spine. I give the front and back pages another few accidental drops, quick flip-throughs, or a single poorly placed carry in my DM bag before pages start falling out. The whole thing is bent and wavy such that...

I'm about to dive into a conversion of the original AD&D adventure "I6: Ravenloft" to 4E. Has this been done? I don't want to reinvent the wheel, just slightly update this classic to use 4E idioms. See: the Tomb of Horrors DM Reward I'm particularly interested in any skill challenges that have...

I spent the weekend at a small sci-fi/fantasy/gaming/anime convention demoing 4th Edition--the new Red Box and DM Kit in particular--for my FLGS in exchange for a free vendor badge. My take-aways: The new Red Box is a huge hit and a huge draw to middle-aged dads who are playing with their...

My FLGS asked me to help demo 4E/Essentials and promote D&D Encounters at the gaming, fantasy, and sci-fi convention in town this weekend. Anyone have any tips on demonstrating an RPG at a con? How about showing the strengths of the much maligned 4E to a crowd that will likely be full of...

I think I have a problem with this being a Wizard Utility 2 power (Heroes of the Fallen Lands, page 209). I'm having a hard time articulating it. It doesn't "feel" right. The crux of the power is the target gets a saving throw with a +5 bonus if it's your level or higher and -5 if its lower...